Facebook is open-sourcing its deep-learning artificial intelligence tools

Facebook has announced that its research team for artificial intelligence technology is now open-sourcing its deep-learning AI tools. The company is making the tools available on Torch, an open-source environment for technology such as this and is widely used in both academia and by technology giants such as Google and Intel.

Facebook is sharing some of its technology. The company’s artificial intelligence research team today announced that it is open sourcing its deep-learning AI tools. The software will be available on the Torch library, which serves as an open-source environment for machine learning development. Torch is widely used for research in academia, as well as by companies like Google, Twitter and Intel. Facebook claims its deep-learning modules are significantly quicker than the default ones available through Torch, and allow the company to work on larger neural networks in less time.